The chronicles of SQL Relay, Rudiments, and other firstworks technologies

...and general adventures in Software Development, IT, and computing.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

SQL Relay - 0.52 is out

Yes. SQL Relay 0.52 is now available for general consumption.

Usually when I make a release of SQL Relay there is at least one significant new features. This release though, is mainly just for compatibility with all of the changes I recently made to Rudiments. A side effect of those changes is platform compatibility, so arguably that's a new feature, but most of the platforms that it now runs on are old or obscure in one way or another. There were some recent fixes for ARM platforms which are actually growing in popularity these days, but the fixes for SCO OSR6, NetBSD Vax or Linux libc4 aren't likely to get too many peoples' attention.

It is kind of neat though, to see screenshots of an Oracle 12c database being accessed from platforms that Oracle has probably never remotely considered supporting.

There were a few non-platform-compatibility-related updates to this release. sqlr-export supports CSV output now. I had a need for that so I added code for it. sqlrsh now reports the correct version. It had been stuck at 0.22 probably since release 0.22. sqlrsh also supports multiple queries on the command line. You can now do: